Most people can't escape the threat of climate change: Commentary Amy Miller and Guy Trammell Jr.

This column appears monthly in Seacoastonline and the Tuskegee News. This week Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Ala., and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about how the changing atmosphere is impacting our lives.

By Amy Miller

Silvino captained the boat that took us between the uninhabited Caribbean islands of Guna Yala. Eligio introduced us to the culture of the indigenous Guna community that lives on the coast and in the tropical islands off Panama. And Reuben brought us drinks from the local coconuts.

On a four-day trip from Panama to Colombia, I was introduced to a handful of the hundreds of islands of palm trees and sandy beaches that belong to the Guna and one by one are falling into the sea.

The Gunas, an indigenous group with contro